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On Bill Maher of the Eternal Smirk. Myra Breckenridge shares her thoughts

“Bill Maher” When will this ‘Once Rebel’, now just the comic voice of a collapsed Neo-Liberalism, and its Con-Man-in-Chief Obama & the utterly loathsome Hillary, retire to the Comedy Old Folks Home? Like that other un-funny ‘Comic’ Jerry Seinfeld. It … Continue reading

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The Financial Times’ predictable, yet unseemly Economic Romance with Bill Ackman. Political Observer comments

Headline: Inside Bill Ackman’s $2.6bn big short Sub-headline: Hedge fund chief bets on stockmarket recovery after profiting from coronavirus sell-off Dan McCrum and Ortenca Aliaj chronicle, in all its gripping economic melodrama, the triumph of the grey-haired genius boy Mr. … Continue reading

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gideon.rachman@ft.com On ‘Eurobonds’, without mention of Pedro Sánchez ! StephenKMackSD comments

Not even a mention of Pedro Sánchez’s essay in The Guardian of Sunday April 5, 2020 ? https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2020/apr/05/europes-future-is-at-stake-in-this-war-against-coronavirus The end of the E. U., and its single currency, in the Age of The Pandemic, is gaining momentum , or is … Continue reading

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john.thornhill@ft.com on ‘Creative Destruction’ of a sort. Old Socialist comments

Has this newspaper moved to The Left, with Covid-19 as its goad? Schumpeter’s ‘creative destruction’ ,that Mr. Thornhill makes the centerpiece of his intervention, in the face of the massive, and largely unsupervised bail-out of American Capital, passed by both … Continue reading

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@nytimes Bret Stephen’s paranoid wet dream about the year 2025. Political Observer comments

Think of Stephens distopian view of the future,  as speculation in the political present, to unleash his penchant for fear mongering, garnished by comforting political kitsch. Think of that David Lynch’s classic Hollywood dreck ‘Blue Velvet’, as a bloated rhetorical … Continue reading

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Rabbi Jonathan Sacks & Margaret Hodge, in the pages of The Financial Times. Old Socialist comments

Should it surprise any regular reader of The Financial Times, that it features two of the most prominent, not to speak of mendacious, defamers of Jeremy Corbyn, as somehow credible, on any given subject, after the public record of their … Continue reading

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Andrew Sullivan on COVID-19. Myra Breckenridge comments

I just have to wonder at the utterly bankrupt Andrew Sullivan’s latest moralizing essay, and its first paragraph: “There is no wealth but life,” the great critic John Ruskin once wrote. You can hear that faith in the words of … Continue reading

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edward.luce@ft.com on ‘Competence’. Old Socialist comments

Neo-Liberals, your ersatz Utopianism is not just in decline, but is on the Critical List! The Pandemic signals the revival of the long dormant notion, that the Nation State, as conceived in the Age of Enlightenment, and its sine qua … Continue reading

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martin.wolf@ft.com on ‘The tragedy of two failing superpowers’. Political Observer comments

Headline: The tragedy of two failing superpowers Sub-headline: To address the pandemic, China and the US must not only function. They must function together https://www.ft.com/content/ea1563e8-725f-11ea-ad98-044200cb277f Just to focus on one paragraph of Mr. Wolf’s latest encyclical heavily garnished with graphs/charts. … Continue reading

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janan.ganesh@ft.com : The Pandemic re-writes ‘The Social Contract’ via Dickens & Orwell. Old Socialist comments

Mr. Ganesh’s literary overlay, Dickens vs. Orwell provides that frame, on power of The Pandemic is stylistically – I can’t compare it to Tom Wolfe’ s ‘snap, crackle, pop’ -for it is too sophisticated, in its way. And reaches an … Continue reading

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